Reviews, Recipes, and Random Slices of Life

Uglug. I've been sick for the last couple of days with an annoying sore throat/cranky sinuses thing. I do not feel so well, and am profoundly grateful that there's been nothing at either work worth dragging me in for. It's bad enough to make me not go in to work or martial arts, but not quite so bad to make me experiment again with cold medicines. I've had allergic reactions the last two times I tried medicating when sick, and let me tell you, that really sucks. I can still sleep, it just takes a little longer.

Sunday was a really great day, though--something I've been needing since I've been having some pretty serious mood-swinginess lately, trending to the depressed/angry/evil. Sunday! Phil got us free tickets for good seats at a Twins game, along with a coworker of his and "Albert," a guy sent over from the China plant to observe. Needless to say, there was lots of explanation of the game, both for me and for Albert. Seems like a nice guy, though, and apparently more Westernized than some of the other people exchanged. There were hot dogs and baseball and jokes about toilets flushing (it was at the Metrodome AKA Paul Bunyon's toilet).

Exchange of the day:
Friendly season ticket holder to little girl: "What's your favorite sport?"
Little girl: "Chocolate!"
Mom: "No, honey, chocolate's not a sport!"
Season ticket holder: "If it was, it would be my favorite sport, too."
*contemplative pause*
"It would be a lot of people's favorite sport."

After the game, we caught the next bus heading in our general direction, so wound up in front of an Ace Hardware and did some necessary shopping. Including potting soil and seeds. Then the last hour or so of the day was spent in gardening. Our yard is not so good for gardening--there's a bunch of pre-planted stuff in beds around the house, most of which I still don't know what it is--and there's not a good area for vegetable gardening. However, I have now planted tomatoes and herbs in pots, and reseeded the difficult areas with wildflowers and a "Hummingbird and Butterfly Garden" mix. I bought corn, but upon consideration, I *really* have nowhere to plant it (at least four parallel rows? Nuh-uh!). And I've got some squash that I'll try planting and cross my fingers and hope it takes at all.

I'm happy it's actually getting warm again--I was very depressed when we had lovely wonderful weather and then plunged right back into winter, complete with snow, about a week ago.

Summer snow shed by the cottonwood trees, the mere sight of which affects those unfortunates afflicted by allergies.